Escaping a Fire in the Home
Introduction
Resources To Use
How-To
Introduction
An escape plan is an easy thing to develop for your home,
and a vital one for the safety of your family. Many home fires
start at night, when people are sleeping. Do your children
know what to do if that happens? Do you? You need a plan.
You should develop an escape plan with two
different ways out of every room and a set meeting place.
Then you learn and practice exactly what to do, using that
plan.
Resources To Use
• Fire Escape
page in the Command Center, includes a step-by-step escape
challenge.
• All the Right Moves
lesson in the Educator section
• Planning to Escape
lesson in the Educator section
• Fire
Escape Download
How-To
• Go through the Command Center information with your
children and take the Fire Escape together. It’s an
interactive escape tool that asks you to make decisions as
you exit a burning house. And it tells you why you made the
right or wrong decision.
• Print out the Safe Exit Steps List
and Home Exit Plan sheets.
• Create an escape plan that includes
two ways out of every room.
• Practice the
escape plan, following procedures you would follow in a real
fire. (Crawling low under smoke; feeling a door with the back
of the hand, etc.)
• Make sure your
plan works for members of your family with special needs or
disabilities.
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